Incubation Time

Join Pri and Lexus for a quick life update as we record outdoors at a special location! (Recorded back in August)

Welcome to 2025! Lexus and Pri update you all on their PhD's and future plans. And as a special surprise, they are in studio with Tell Me More Studios to record a video as well! Clips from the podcast are on our instagram @incubation_time

In this episode, we’re diving into the highlights of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry! Join us as we explore the groundbreaking discoveries that earned this year’s Nobel laureates their prestigious awards. From life-saving medical breakthroughs to revolutionary advancements in chemistry and the mysteries of physics, this episode is packed with insights for both science ent...

Mouse in the house! This episode we dive straight into mice as a model organism. DISCLAIMER - this is NOT a gory episode. We chat and learn all about behavioral assays used to monitor autism in mice with Ph. D. Candidate and colleague Shayal. Tune-in to listen to how to get a lazy mouse back on their treadmill (don’t we all need this technique), and what does your pipette tip box say about you?

We interview fellow graduate student (and social media influencer) Priscilla Del Valle. She talks to us about what working in a lab with different kinds of tissue culture is like and what the microbiome has to do with cancer research! We also talk to her about entering biotech after your PhD and how she became famous online! Follow her at @prisdvmvsscience on insta and tiktok Follow us at @incubat...

We are BACK! And we are starting with a standalone interview with graduate student Carlos Pinzon. He has a fascinating story going from vet school to grad school and he has worked with every kind of animal under the sun! Carlos gives us some insight into stem cells and agricultural research and how finicky and particular it can be to work with these kinds of cells. Warning: this episode is very ja...

Conferences! What are they? Why do we go? Why are there so many different kinds? Get an inside look into science conferences told from the point of view of our classmates.  It is an essential part of the graduate school experience and a big part of a science career. Join us while we unpack the fun, the not so fun and the interesting parts of the science conferences we went to this year. Yes there...

In today’s episode, we finally get to fan-girl about our favorite model organism… except with a twist. C.elegans are cool and fun but in this episode we deep-dive into the life of the parasitic worm, Schistosoma mansoni, with graduate student Sarah Cobb.  Time Stamps : 0:00- Intro 3:30-Woman in Science 6:60-Science of the Week 10:55-Interview with Sarah Cobb.  Link to article from Lexus'...

The model organism episodes continue, this week featuring fruit flies! Those pesky buggers do more than just populate your banana bowl. Tune in to hear us interview a grad student about what makes fruit flies such a popular model organism and the cool things we can research by using them. Join us, as we find yet another organism name we can't pronounce. TimeStamps: 0:00: Crazy Science and Woman in...

After a long break, Lexus and Priyankaa are back with their 2nd Model Organism interview! This episode, you learn all about that tiny little (model)organism that makes happy-hours happy...YEAST! Or should we say Saccharomyces cere..cere..vis-iae? Lexus and Priyankaa sit down with Ph. D. Candidate Natalie Ortiz to not only learn about yeast, but also deep dive into microbiology and food-science.&nb...

Its that time of year again! Sit down with Priyankaa and Lexus as they discuss the latest Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics as well as giving you the science news of the week and the woman in science of the week (she's related to one of the laureates this year!) Woman of the week: Christiane Volhard (1995 Nobel Prize winner) Science family tree: https://academictree.org Timepoints 14...

Lexus and Priyankaa are now PhD candidates! Check in with us in this mini episode as we reflect and de-stress from these last three months and explain why we've been absent. Hope to get back to regular podcasting soon! Thanks for listening and don't forget to subscribe.

We're BACK! Join us post-snowpocalypse as we dive into E. coli, the workhorse of every research lab.  Come find out how it was discovered, the way humans end up with E. coli when we are born, why its such a great and safe organism to use in lab, how fast they actually grow and how bacteria is responsible for one of the worst attacks on US soil (and no, its not the one you're thinking of). &nb...

In our third episode we asked you, our colleges and peers, to ask your friends or family what it is you do in lab? Here is a collection of all the wonderful responses your loved ones gave.  It was fascinating to find out what we tend to focus on when telling people about our research and what they pick up on. Breakdown (so you can skip around): 0:00-Intro 2:20-Guide to COVID vaccines 9:00-Wom...

This week we dive into our favorite award season! Nobel Prize week! We break down the 2020 winners of the Physiology and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry prizes and share some fun facts and stories about past Nobel winners.  Visit nobelprize.org for information on all laureates! Episode Breakdown: 0:10-Intro and catchup 3:46-Woman Scientist of the episode 5:26-Nobel Fun Facts 9:40-Physiology o...

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Podcast.  For our first episode, we thought it would be good to introduce ourselves.  Learn why we love science, how we got here, and what our lives in lab are like right now! Subscribe to us on all the pod sites for new episodes every two weeks (fingers crossed)! -Priyankaa and Lexus

Welcome to Incubation Time! Priyankaa and Lexus' podcast that brings you into the research fold. Glad you're here! Probably because we asked you to be.  Here's an audio nugget for what's ahead! Tune in next week for our first episode.